Anil Kumar
Greater Noida
Summary
Dynamic Industry Consulting Manager with a proven track record at NTT DATA, driving automation strategies that enhanced test coverage and reduced manual effort by 50%. Expert in Selenium and CI/CD practices, coupled with strong leadership skills, mentoring teams to achieve optimal performance and quality in software delivery.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Industry Consulting Manager (QA & Automation CoE)
NTT DATA
03.2021 - Current
- Client: Fidelity Investments – Stock Plan Services
- Tools: Selenium, RestAssured, Karate, ReadyAPI, Jenkins, Maven, Azure, Azure Blob, CI/CD
- Spearheaded automation-first strategy integrating regression and functional tests within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
- Designed and maintained Java-based automation frameworks (POM, BDD,DDD) improving reusability and cutting manual effort by 50%.
- Implemented test data generation and mock services using Karate DSL and Postman mocks, reducing data dependency issues by 40%.
- Enhanced test coverage and pipeline quality gates, ensuring deployment readiness within release windows.
- Collaborated with DevOps teams to embed automated validation in single-click deployments (shift-left approach).
- Initiated performance and reliability baselining, leveraging JMeter/k6 for critical API benchmarking.
- Managed chaos and fault recovery experiments (pilot using Gremlin) to improve environment resiliency.
- Mentored a team of 10+ QA engineers, conducted code reviews, and improved overall sprint throughput by 20%.
- Defined KPIs, introduced test governance dashboards via Jenkins + Confluence integration for real-time visibility.
- Telus International (Client: Dish Networks, Neustar)
Automation Lead
NTT DATA
01.2018 - 03.2021
- Developed end-to-end API and Web Service automation using ReadyAPI, SOAPUI, and Groovy scripts.
- Integrated automated regression suites in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to support continuous deployment.
- Led a 10-member QA team, overseeing automation delivery and test coverage optimization.
- Conducted root cause analysis (RCA) and implemented DMAIC-based quality improvements, reducing defect rejection by 25%.
QA Lead – BMO, USA
BirlaSoft Ltd
11.2016 - 12.2017
- Defined QA strategy for financial applications, including test planning, review, environment setup, and test data control.
- Enhanced automation pipelines and collaborated with developers to adopt BDD-driven frameworks.
QA Engineer – RBS Faster Payments
FIS Global
10.2015 - 11.2016
- Led automation testing using Selenium and SOAPUI within payment systems (Open Payment Framework).
- Implemented structured entry/exit criteria and CI/CD validation gates for consistent quality delivery.
Automation Engineer – Smart TVs
Samsung India
03.2013 - 10.2015
- Migrated SOAPUI test suites to TOSCA, introducing model-based automation for web services.
- Validated system reliability and performance for Smart TV APIs and service integration layers.
QA Engineer – Virgin Australia
Coforge (NIIT Technologies)
10.2010 - 03.2013
- Automated web services and GUI testing using TOSCA, Selenium, and SOAPUI.
- Supported B2B and B2C testing environments ensuring robust coverage across modules.
Education
B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering
Maharshi Dayanand University
Rohtak08-2010
Skills
- Automation Frameworks: Selenium, Playwright, Karate, Cucumber, RestAssured, TestNG, Cypress
- Load & Performance Tools: JMeter, Gatling (POC)
- Chaos & Reliability Tools: Gremlin, Litmus (Exposure), Fault Injection Testing
- CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD
- Cloud and containers: Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, serverless functions
- Test data and mocking: factory patterns, synthetic data (KarateMocks, Postman), data anonymization
- Observability & Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic (Awareness)
- Programming: Java, Groovy, JavaScript, SQL
- Test Management: JIRA, Confluence, Xray, TestRail
- Test automation
- Continuous integration
- API testing
- Java programming
- Performance benchmarking
- Client management
- Team leadership
- Defect tracking
- Test strategy development
- Solution implementation
- Problem solving
- Effective communication
- Time management
- Code review
- Business analysis
- Data analysis
- Organizational development
- Coaching and mentoring
- Quality assurance
- Client relationships
- Operational planning
- Account management
- Client satisfaction
Accomplishments
- Delivered multiple automation frameworks improving QA efficiency by 50%+
- Recognized by client (Fidelity Investments) for driving CI/CD-based QA transformation.
- Implemented gated quality metrics and test dashboards improving release predictability.
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Native
Native
Timeline
Industry Consulting Manager (QA & Automation CoE)
NTT DATA
03.2021 - Current
Automation Lead
NTT DATA
01.2018 - 03.2021
QA Lead – BMO, USA
BirlaSoft Ltd
11.2016 - 12.2017
QA Engineer – RBS Faster Payments
FIS Global
10.2015 - 11.2016
Automation Engineer – Smart TVs
Samsung India
03.2013 - 10.2015
QA Engineer – Virgin Australia
Coforge (NIIT Technologies)
10.2010 - 03.2013
B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering
Maharshi Dayanand University